This thinker introduced a complex geometric figure called the "totemic operator" to demonstrate the path from one member of a pair of binary opposites to the other. He alleged that the reciprocal exch
This thinker introduced a complex geometric figure called the "totemic operator" to demonstrate the path from one member of a pair of binary opposites to the other. He alleged that the reciprocal exchange of women is the sole basis of kinship, and broke down myths into units called mythemes in order to classify them. One of his series ends with the volume The Naked Man, and synthesizes the beliefs of several small New World tribes, including the Brazilian Bororo, whom he had earlier discussed in his memoir Tristes Tropiques. For 10 points, name this French structural anthropologist, whose The Raw and the Cooked began his tetralogy Mythologiques.
This thinker introduced a complex geometric figure called the "totemic operator" to demonstrate the path from one member of a pair of binary opposites to the other.
Claude {Lévi}-{Strauss}